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Apple unveils new features in iOS 12 to reduce distractions, including Screen Time, Do Not Disturb at Bedtime, grouped notifications, and new parental controls — San Jose, California — Apple today announced new tools built into iOS 12 to help customers understand and take control …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Apple upgrades Safari's tracking prevention features by limiting both “fingerprinting” of devices and user tracking through comment, share, and like buttons — - Users will have to “opt-in” to allowing websites to track their browsing behavior on Safari, including sites with a …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's newly updated App Store guidelines say non-subscription apps may offer a “free time-based trial period” by using a “non-consumable” in-app purchase — Apple today has updated its App Store Review Guidelines with a handful of changes.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Intel announces limited edition 5GHz Core i7-8086K anniversary CPU, its fastest ever, as an homage to the 40th anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor — As an homage to both Intel's 50 year company anniversary and the 40 year anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor …
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Asus launches ZenBook Pro 15 with ScreenPad, a 5.5-inch touchpad with FHD display that can even run its own apps — Remember Razer's Switchblade UI? Remember Windows SideShow? If you ever dreamt of a computer with its own secondary display, then ASUS' New ZenBook Pro is the device for you.
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| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 850 platform for “Always Connected” Windows 10 PCs, features eight 10nm Kryo 385 cores, Adreno 630 GPU, and X20 4G LTE modem — Microsoft and Qualcomm first announced their plans to put Windows 10 on ARM chips in December 2016, promising the emulation of x86 apps.
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| Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: |
Sharp to buy Toshiba's PC business for $36M and retain its Dynabook brand, in a return by Sharp to a market it quit eight years ago — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp (6753.T) said it will buy Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) personal computer business and issue $1.8 billion in new shares to buy …
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Washington sues Facebook and Google for allegedly violating state campaign finance law by failing to maintain and disclose information on political ad spending — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases new shortcut app to directly launch Google Lens — At the moment, the LG G7 offers the fastest way to access Google Lens through a dedicated hardware button. In comparison, the vast majority of users have to first bring up Assistant and then tap the camera icon.
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Amazon hasn't said how many Prime members use Prime Video Channels, which has become a big distributor for OTT networks; networks not worried about ceding power — Amazon has become a significant driver of subscriptions for TV companies with over-the-top streaming channels.| James Kobielus / SiliconANGLE: |
GitHub's struggle with profitability may be over as Microsoft takes control, but new hurdles could arise if devs move to rival services like GitLab, BitBucket — The open-source developer community now confronts an acquisition of seismic impact. — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
How comment hosting service Disqus, which gets ~2B unique visitors/month and supports anonymous comments, is losing its battle against trolls and hate speech — The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple ships Health Records API to devs, so users can “share medical records from multiple hospitals with their favorite trusted apps” — While this release didn't seem to see any stage time during the WWDC keynote today, Apple has just opened up its Health Records API to developers.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
SEC appoints Valerie Szczepanik as its first cryptocurrency chief to coordinate efforts across all SEC divisions on emerging digital assets, including ICOs — One of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's leading officials on cryptocurrency and token sales has been named to a new senior advisory position.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
watchOS 5 does not support first gen Apple Watches, including the $17,000 Editions — After announcing watchOS 5 today, Apple has shared the hardware requirements for the latest operating system for its wearables. — It's not surprising, but Apple has indeed cut off support …
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